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Chase A Rainbow
She hadn't traveled this far to find a lover!
Tascha Dennis hadn't crossed a continent for romantic adventure. She'd left Montreal for Whitehorse convinced that somewhere in the Yukon wilderness was the father she had never known.
But the one man who could help her, Seth Curtis, owner of a lodge rumored to be close to her father's hideaway, stubbornly defended the man's privacy. Even Seth's electrifying interest in Tascha couldn't allay his suspicions of her motives.
So Tascha chose her option--going to the lodge behind Seth's back, knowing that in pursuing one dream, she may have forfeited another.
Tascha Dennis hadn't crossed a continent for romantic adventure. She'd left Montreal for Whitehorse convinced that somewhere in the Yukon wilderness was the father she had never known.
But the one man who could help her, Seth Curtis, owner of a lodge rumored to be close to her father's hideaway, stubbornly defended the man's privacy. Even Seth's electrifying interest in Tascha couldn't allay his suspicions of her motives.
So Tascha chose her option--going to the lodge behind Seth's back, knowing that in pursuing one dream, she may have forfeited another.
- GenresHarlequin Presents
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 1988
About the author
Sandra Field
215 books36 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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December 11, 2016
Re Chase a Rainbow- This is another one of the non HP HP's. Though there is a romance and a lot of adventure, this story is very low key and non dramatic - even though the whole premise the story is built on is terribly dramatic, the characters really never get that emotional about it.
The book opens with the 22 yr old h arriving in Whitehorse, capitol of the Yukon territory, and she is looking for a way to get to a remote Yukon lodge that is pretty much inaccessible by anything but plane or horseback. The h's mother recently died, and while the h did not feel very close to the woman who said she was her mother, several mysteries were revealed upon the woman's death. The first being $10000.00 in a bank account, which was kinda strange cause the h was raised in poverty, the second being two letters hidden away. The letters were signed by the Russian name Belov and the h finds out that her own last name is a Canadianized version of a Russian surname as well.
The first letter indicates that the writer has found a place to live with a good friend near Whitehorse and names Caribou lodge, the place the h is looking for a way to get to. The second indicates regret over the death of the child and the writer also includes that he has sent his savings (the $10,000.00,) to help the h's mother get a new start. The letters are 20 years old and the h soon comes to believe that they were written by her father, tho the woman who raised her was mean and cold and got furiously angry whenever the h asked about where or who her father was.
The h decides that Whitehorse is the place to go to start the search for the writer of the letters and find out who her family really is. She now has some doubts about the woman who raised her, especially after she finds some books that were written by Belov and indicate he escaped from Russia and is very mysterious and elusive. The h believes that the owner of Caribou lodge may be able to help her find Belov.
The h does meet he owner of the lodge in Whitehorse, but he is a young man a little older that she is and we find out that the H's father was actually Belov's good friend. The current owner won't help her get to the lodge, it is very expensive and exclusive and Belov doesn't encourage visitors. Belov has had a very tough life and tho his books are popular, he lives the life of a hermit. There is also a very strong attraction between the owner of the lodge and the h.
There is some serious roofie kisses and the h is ensorcelled. The H rejects her pretty harshly when he thinks the h is a reporter out to do an expose on Belov. Plus, the H doesn't trust strong emotions, his parents were obsessed with each other and he suffered a lot for it. They were very neglectful of him and the H doesn't want to go through that kind of emotional trauma. His dad fell apart when his mother died and never really recovered, the H shouldered a lot of burdens because of his dad's withdrawal from life.
The h is determined tho, she has some burning questions and needs some answers. So she finds another way to get to the lodge. She gets on a flight that is dropping off supplies for a back country hunting station close to the lodge and she even has a trail companion of sorts that will let her ride on one of his pack horses. They get to the lodge area but there is still a ways to travel. The journey will require an overnight sleep out and the h has to use the trail guide's rifle to keep him at bay. He figured since she was there, she should be available and the h had her own supplies and disagreed with that.
The guide won't let her use the horses the next day and takes off. The h decides to hike to the lodge. (She is woefully under prepared, but she gives it a good go.) She is hiking along when she runs into wolves and she gets frightened cause it appears they are stalking her. She runs right into the H then, who had heard she was with the dubious trail guide and set out to rescue her. He takes her to the lodge and puts the h to work helping in the kitchen, the h also gets her very own tent, cause inside accommodation is very limited. The H tells her she will have to leave with the main tourist group in a few days.
We meet some of the tourists, including a 16 yr old girl going on 30 and ready to seduce the H. We also meet her mild mannered, bird watching divorced dad. There is a sub plot where the h thinks the H lets himself be seduced by the 16 yr old. But the H pretty harshly turns the girl down and the h winds up being a sort of mentor to her and her dad.
In the meantime the h is helping out the woman who cooks, in the kitchen and with the guest rooms. The h keeps trying to track the H to find out where Belov is too. The h also learns that you don't put anything on the side of a canvas tent, because when it rains the tent will leak and all your stuff will get soaked. There is more of the roofie kisses thing going on, but the H and h are still at odds over the Belov situation, so the kissing doesn't go anywhere.
Eventually the woman who cooks fakes an illness so that the h can stay longer and the h explains that she thinks Belov is her father. The H doesn't think it is so, he has known Belov his whole life and the man never mentioned a wife or child. Still, he will go and talk to Belov and see if he can help the h. The h sneaks into the back of his jeep when the H leaves, the H finds this after he gets to the start of the remote trail to Belov's and the h and he become lovers on the way to Belov's house.
When they eventually get to Belov's, the man is startled and calls the h by another name. It turns out the h is the image of her dead mother and Belov IS her father. When they escaped from Russia, the h's mum got sick and died. The woman who raised her was the mum's cousin and resented the fact that Belov wouldn't marry her after his wife died. She lied and told Belov that the h had died as a child and then was mean to the h to vent her spite.
The h and Belov have a happy, but strangely muted and pragmatic reunion. Neither one of them get real excited about the tremendous wrong that was done and they like each other fine, so they aren't really excited about meeting each other either. The h confesses that she loves the H and Belov explains that his parents were the world's most selfish people ever and the warped the H's sense of what love really is. However the h can stay with him in his remote cabin or his nice house in a more populated area - the h is very smart and has gone to college on scholarships- and maybe work on the H a bit.
The H rejects the h when she tells him she loves him and the h gets a proposal from the 16 yr old's dad, which she turns down. Then she runs into a bear while wandering around and the H runs to save her. The bear makes the H realize that he would be up a creek without a paddle emotionally if he lost the h, so he swears he loves her madly. The h is loving him madly back and she likes the Lodge lifestyle and she found her dad, so they lurve it up after deciding on marriage for the big HEA.
This was a sweet book, but remarkably low drama for all the drama that actually happened. I liked the story, everyone was very nice, but it was not the usual HP wrecki train. Try this one if you are in the mood for something different or like wilderness adventures. If you really prefer a more HPlandia crazy train venture, this one might be better avoided - everyone (including the 16 yr old vamp eventually,) is really much too reasonable and adult for a true HP outing.
The book opens with the 22 yr old h arriving in Whitehorse, capitol of the Yukon territory, and she is looking for a way to get to a remote Yukon lodge that is pretty much inaccessible by anything but plane or horseback. The h's mother recently died, and while the h did not feel very close to the woman who said she was her mother, several mysteries were revealed upon the woman's death. The first being $10000.00 in a bank account, which was kinda strange cause the h was raised in poverty, the second being two letters hidden away. The letters were signed by the Russian name Belov and the h finds out that her own last name is a Canadianized version of a Russian surname as well.
The first letter indicates that the writer has found a place to live with a good friend near Whitehorse and names Caribou lodge, the place the h is looking for a way to get to. The second indicates regret over the death of the child and the writer also includes that he has sent his savings (the $10,000.00,) to help the h's mother get a new start. The letters are 20 years old and the h soon comes to believe that they were written by her father, tho the woman who raised her was mean and cold and got furiously angry whenever the h asked about where or who her father was.
The h decides that Whitehorse is the place to go to start the search for the writer of the letters and find out who her family really is. She now has some doubts about the woman who raised her, especially after she finds some books that were written by Belov and indicate he escaped from Russia and is very mysterious and elusive. The h believes that the owner of Caribou lodge may be able to help her find Belov.
The h does meet he owner of the lodge in Whitehorse, but he is a young man a little older that she is and we find out that the H's father was actually Belov's good friend. The current owner won't help her get to the lodge, it is very expensive and exclusive and Belov doesn't encourage visitors. Belov has had a very tough life and tho his books are popular, he lives the life of a hermit. There is also a very strong attraction between the owner of the lodge and the h.
There is some serious roofie kisses and the h is ensorcelled. The H rejects her pretty harshly when he thinks the h is a reporter out to do an expose on Belov. Plus, the H doesn't trust strong emotions, his parents were obsessed with each other and he suffered a lot for it. They were very neglectful of him and the H doesn't want to go through that kind of emotional trauma. His dad fell apart when his mother died and never really recovered, the H shouldered a lot of burdens because of his dad's withdrawal from life.
The h is determined tho, she has some burning questions and needs some answers. So she finds another way to get to the lodge. She gets on a flight that is dropping off supplies for a back country hunting station close to the lodge and she even has a trail companion of sorts that will let her ride on one of his pack horses. They get to the lodge area but there is still a ways to travel. The journey will require an overnight sleep out and the h has to use the trail guide's rifle to keep him at bay. He figured since she was there, she should be available and the h had her own supplies and disagreed with that.
The guide won't let her use the horses the next day and takes off. The h decides to hike to the lodge. (She is woefully under prepared, but she gives it a good go.) She is hiking along when she runs into wolves and she gets frightened cause it appears they are stalking her. She runs right into the H then, who had heard she was with the dubious trail guide and set out to rescue her. He takes her to the lodge and puts the h to work helping in the kitchen, the h also gets her very own tent, cause inside accommodation is very limited. The H tells her she will have to leave with the main tourist group in a few days.
We meet some of the tourists, including a 16 yr old girl going on 30 and ready to seduce the H. We also meet her mild mannered, bird watching divorced dad. There is a sub plot where the h thinks the H lets himself be seduced by the 16 yr old. But the H pretty harshly turns the girl down and the h winds up being a sort of mentor to her and her dad.
In the meantime the h is helping out the woman who cooks, in the kitchen and with the guest rooms. The h keeps trying to track the H to find out where Belov is too. The h also learns that you don't put anything on the side of a canvas tent, because when it rains the tent will leak and all your stuff will get soaked. There is more of the roofie kisses thing going on, but the H and h are still at odds over the Belov situation, so the kissing doesn't go anywhere.
Eventually the woman who cooks fakes an illness so that the h can stay longer and the h explains that she thinks Belov is her father. The H doesn't think it is so, he has known Belov his whole life and the man never mentioned a wife or child. Still, he will go and talk to Belov and see if he can help the h. The h sneaks into the back of his jeep when the H leaves, the H finds this after he gets to the start of the remote trail to Belov's and the h and he become lovers on the way to Belov's house.
When they eventually get to Belov's, the man is startled and calls the h by another name. It turns out the h is the image of her dead mother and Belov IS her father. When they escaped from Russia, the h's mum got sick and died. The woman who raised her was the mum's cousin and resented the fact that Belov wouldn't marry her after his wife died. She lied and told Belov that the h had died as a child and then was mean to the h to vent her spite.
The h and Belov have a happy, but strangely muted and pragmatic reunion. Neither one of them get real excited about the tremendous wrong that was done and they like each other fine, so they aren't really excited about meeting each other either. The h confesses that she loves the H and Belov explains that his parents were the world's most selfish people ever and the warped the H's sense of what love really is. However the h can stay with him in his remote cabin or his nice house in a more populated area - the h is very smart and has gone to college on scholarships- and maybe work on the H a bit.
The H rejects the h when she tells him she loves him and the h gets a proposal from the 16 yr old's dad, which she turns down. Then she runs into a bear while wandering around and the H runs to save her. The bear makes the H realize that he would be up a creek without a paddle emotionally if he lost the h, so he swears he loves her madly. The h is loving him madly back and she likes the Lodge lifestyle and she found her dad, so they lurve it up after deciding on marriage for the big HEA.
This was a sweet book, but remarkably low drama for all the drama that actually happened. I liked the story, everyone was very nice, but it was not the usual HP wrecki train. Try this one if you are in the mood for something different or like wilderness adventures. If you really prefer a more HPlandia crazy train venture, this one might be better avoided - everyone (including the 16 yr old vamp eventually,) is really much too reasonable and adult for a true HP outing.
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May 10, 2021She hadn't traveled this far to find a lover!
Tascha Dennis hadn't crossed a continent for romantic adventure. She'd left Montreal for Whitehorse convinced that somewhere in the Yukon wilderness was the father she had never known.
But the one man who could help her, Seth Curtis, owner of a lodge rumored to be close to her father's hideaway, stubbornly defended the man's privacy. Even Seth's electrifying interest in Tascha couldn't allay his suspicions of her motives.
So Tascha chose her option--going to the lodge behind Seth's back, knowing that in pursuing one dream, she may have forfeited another.
Tascha Dennis hadn't crossed a continent for romantic adventure. She'd left Montreal for Whitehorse convinced that somewhere in the Yukon wilderness was the father she had never known.
But the one man who could help her, Seth Curtis, owner of a lodge rumored to be close to her father's hideaway, stubbornly defended the man's privacy. Even Seth's electrifying interest in Tascha couldn't allay his suspicions of her motives.
So Tascha chose her option--going to the lodge behind Seth's back, knowing that in pursuing one dream, she may have forfeited another.
January 23, 2021
Exquisite imagery in this book. The beauty of the mountains, the flora and the fauna are vividly described in this story. The characters are both flawed and stumbling along as best they can. A great story even though the book is over 30 years old.
August 9, 2019
Ah, questi uomini che hanno paura dell'amore...!
Storia carina e di facile lettura (è pur sempre un harmony), ideale per passare un pomeriggio in totale relax, a non pensare a nient'altro che al figaccione di turno ;)
Storia carina e di facile lettura (è pur sempre un harmony), ideale per passare un pomeriggio in totale relax, a non pensare a nient'altro che al figaccione di turno ;)
June 19, 2016
Awful and unbelievable book.
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